Return To An Address Of The House Of Commons Dated 27th April 1885 For Copies Of Correspondence Of A Recent Date Between The Superintendent General Of Indian Affairs And The Agent Of The Department In British Columbia Or Any Other Person Upon The Subject Of Establishing Indian Schools In Said Province

Author : Hector L. Langevin
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780260047557
Total Pages : 22 pages
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Download or read book Return to an Order of the House of Commons, Dated the 27th April, 1885 written by Hector L. Langevin and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2019-01-08 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Return to an Order of the House of Commons, Dated the 27th April, 1885: For Copies of Correspondence of a Recent Date Between the Superintendent General of Indian Affairs and the Agent of the Department in British Columbia, or Any Other Person, Upon the Subject of Establishing Indian Schools in Said Province There can be no doubt, as I have had the honor upon previous occasions Of reporting to you, that the Indian desires a minimum of benefit from the day school system, because the influence of camp life is stronger than that of the school. In fact the Whole tribal system, Of having their goods and their lands and living in common, is Opposed to any system of education which does not begin its reform by separating the child from such a mode of existence, and introducing him to some thing which is better. The day school, often presided over by untrained teachers, with its irregular attendance and short hours, is slow to accomplish any tangible or permanent results, 'which may in no way be compared to the great benefits which are soon felt from a properly organized and well conducted industrial boarding school. I regard it as a matter of sound policy, if not exalted duty, on the part of the Government having charge of Indians, to place means Of education within their reach. Unfortunately, however, the present annual appropriation for Indian purposes in British Columbia is entirely inadequate to effect more than a very superficial care over such a large population of Indians as there is here, especially while the work and expense of setting aside and surveying lands is borne exclusively by this {department A considerable addition would therefore have to be made to the usual estimate of Indian expenditure, and the Government would have to be sufficiently high-minded to ignore that portion of the articles Of Union by which it was stipulated that the Indians of this country were to be treated with a policy as liberal as that which was pursued prior to Confederation. At that time such a policy meant little, inasmuch as Indians were then left to look out for themselves. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.